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- Wiretapping
- A form of eavesdropping involving physical connection to the communications channels to breach the confidentiality of communications. For example, many poorly-secured buildings have unprotected telephone wiring closets where intruders...
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- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
- The Senate – with a yes vote from Barack Obama and a no vote from Hillary Clinton – passed the regrettable wiretapping bill today, which grants lawsuit immunity to telecommunications companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. Despite a spirited resistance by some Democratic senators who...
- Tags: Immunity, U.S. Senate, Vote, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- It's 2008, and companies perhaps rich on VC money to waste in a guerilla marketing tactic for generating viral buzz, still talk and act as the utopian "unbreakable encryption" algorithm is the panacea of security, or the "Hackers Hell: Privacy That Can't Be Compromised" as they pitch it. ...
- Tags: Passphrase, Malware, Encryption Algorithm, Encryption, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Data Center, Apple Inc., Data Centers, Web Browsers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Democrats in Congress have arrived at a compromise on legislation that will allow warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens' telephone lines. In March, I covered the threats to privacy from this bill, which was pushed hard by the White House as essential to national security. Today, the Democrats caved in big...
- Tags: Phone, Democrat, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- What is the U.S. doing about security? Part 2.
- Wow that was quick. No sooner did I get done posting my last article and I see on Wired the following story: Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys — and that...
- Tags: Security, Phone, FBI, CALEA, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National Convention
- Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National ConventionGlad MS picked a winner...unlike Google who picked the RNC to back this election cycle.I guess this means that Google stands for: misleading the US to war, torture, gutting of the Bill of Rights, right-wing social conservative nut jobs, wiretapping, incompetence,...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Democratic National Convention
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Crossing over to the dark side: Consultant pleads guilty to identity theft
- Darth Vader: You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny. An article on the IOL Technology website discusses a consultant who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to raiding hundreds of thousands of computers. The article states: John Schiefer,...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity, Identity Theft, Online Communications, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...
- Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- White+House+official+details+email+hole
- White+House+official+details+email+hole"that smacks of willful violation of laws"What a surprise! That has been th MO of this band of Nazis for the past 7+ years.I'm shocked that we have any Constitution left.the Wite House was fiscally responsible[i]But CIO Theresa Payton canceled the new system in 2006 because it would have "required...
- Tags: Workforce management, details email hole, official details email hole, White House, administration, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping caseThe story just says it all.It's really getting hard to hold my head up and meet foreign peoples eyes when I tell them I'm an American.RE: Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping caseThe stench of the apologists is just beginning to waffle! The love of these...
- Tags: SECURITY, Top-Secret Information, warrantless wiretapping case, wiretapping case, Islamic
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., HD-DVD, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Toshiba Corp., Wireless, Hd Dvd, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Viruses And Worms, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
- The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go forward but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals shot the case down, saying the plaintiffs had no standing unless they...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Fourth+cable+cut+in+Mideast
- Fourth+cable+cut+in+MideastHave you ever worked with fiber optic cables?Have you ever worked with fiber optic networks? I've been in that line since 1994 my job was installing and securing those networks, and I challenge you to show me a foolproof way of tapping into FO cables without getting actual access to...
- Tags: Network technology, cable, Fourth cable cut
- Discussion threads 2008-02-03
- Webcast: Voice over IP Security
- It's important to understand that VoIP is vulnerable to specific types of attacks. For example, the media channel is subject to a variety of attacks, including wiretapping and media manipulation. The signaling is also vulnerable to attack, which can include misdirected or counterfeit signaling messages that may be difficult to...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Webcast, Attack, Telephony, VOIP, Security, Telecommunications, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-02-01
- Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email taps
- Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a sailor who allegedly leaked a Navy document to a suspected terror group in London. He's currently on trial in federal court in Connecticut for disclosing national-defense information and his trial is slated for Feb. 25. His lawyers attempted to argue that the evidence should be suppressed...
- Tags: Phone, USA PATRIOT Act, Regulations, E-mail, Government, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Mr. Dodd's filibuster threat works, vote delayed
- Mr. Dodd's filibuster threat works, vote delayedGood for Dodd!Companies being granted immunity from prosecution for cooperating with warrantless wiretaps becomes a slippery slope which would allow an abusive executive branch to bypass the separation of powers. In fact, such a law would, in itself, violate the separation of powers.So...
- Tags: Telephony, Dodd, filibuster threat work, threat work
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
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